- Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp Tapped To Lead Harvey Rebuilding Effort [The Texas Tribune]
- City Considering Leasing Former Star of Hope Shelter in East Downtown To House up to 300 Harvey Evacuees for a Year [Houston Chronicle]
- Why These Houston Homes Didn’t Flood During Harvey [HBJ ($)]
- More Than 30,000 Federal Workers Involved in Harvey Recovery [Houston Public Media]
- 3 Texas Churches Sue FEMA Over Access to Harvey Emergency Relief Funds [Houston Chronicle]
- Wortham Theater Center Expected to Stay Closed Through at Least Oct. 15 [Houston Press]
- TxDOT Begins Pumping Water from Flooded Beltway 8 Lanes Between I-10 and Westheimer [Community Impact Newspaper]
- Sinkhole Develops on West Beltway 8 Feeder Road in Memorial Area [abc13]
- More Than a Dozen Texas Chemical and Refining Plants Reported Harvey Damage [Houston Chronicle]
- EPA Investigating After Benzene Detected in Air Near Manchester [WSJ]
- Mercury Mysteriously Washed or Blown Ashore in Channelview [New York Times]
- Those Pink Things Dotting the Houston Landscape Now are Snail Eggs [Houston Chronicle]
- Hospitals See Uptick in Skin Infections from Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
- Cypress Floodwater Samples Had E. Coli Levels 125 Times Higher Than What Is Considered Safe for Swimming [Houston Press]
- A Peek at How H-E-B’s Emergency Preparedness Department Operates [Texas Monthly]
- Houston Cleanup Has Little Crime and Lots of Helping Hands [AP]
- How One Near Northside Couple Ended Up Helping Rescue Evacuees with Their Kayak [Houstonia]
- The Web Developers Behind HarveyNeeds.org [Forbes; previously on Swamplot]
- Harvey’s Heroes: ‘Two Regular Guys in a Bass Boat’ [Texas Standard]
- 7 Lessons Federal Responders to Harvey Learned from Katrina [New York Times]
- How Hurricane Harvey Taught the World About Houston [Houston Press]
Photo of Bayou Bend: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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Re: Churches asking for FEMA $
Excuse me, but where are the decades of income and property taxes that you guys have been dodging only because you claim magic powers? Perhaps y’all should pray harder to the guy you claim can easily help.
“Houston Cleanup Has Little Crime and Lots of Helping Hands”
Hmmm, not knowing someone you may rob could have a gun and would shoot you limits the extent of looting.
+1 one for the loose gun laws.